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Resources tagged with: Mass and weight

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A group of animals has made a seesaw in the woods. How can you make the seesaw balance?

Place Your Orders

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Order, Order!

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My measurements have got all jumbled up! Swap them around and see if you can find a combination where every measurement is valid.

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These watermelons have been entered into a competition. Use the information to work out the number of points each one was awarded.

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This article for teachers suggests ways in which dinosaurs can be a great context for discussing measurement.

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This article for teachers recounts the history of measurement, encouraging it to be used as a spring board for cross-curricular activity.

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On the table there is a pile of oranges and lemons that weighs exactly one kilogram. Using the information, can you work out how many lemons there are?

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Year 2 - Mass, Capacity and Temperature – Measure mass in kilograms - White Rose Maths

Subject: Mathematics

Age range: 5-7

Resource type: Lesson (complete)

Last updated

7 April 2021

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Carefully crafted teaching presentation with everything you need to teach this small step of White Rose Maths Year 2 Summer Block 5 Mass, Capacity and Temperature Unit. This presentation follows the mastery approach of concrete, pictorial and abstract, whilst implementing all aspects of Rosenshine’s principles of instruction.

This presentation contains: *A warm-up to start the children’s thinking with AfL and metacognition style questions. *Guided practice through each new concept, providing models of strategies and worked examples. *Independent practice through differentiated varied fluency, reasoning, and problem-solving questions. *Plus, a greater depth extension activity to fully show students’ understanding. *Answer sheets for teacher or students’ self/peer assessment *Student refection page to discuss the lesson’s objectives and their individual next steps.

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Year 2 Compare Mass

This Year 2 Compare Mass lesson covers the prior learning of weight and mass, before moving onto the main skill of comparing the mass of objects using balance scales.

The lesson starts with a prior learning worksheet to check pupils’ understanding. The interactive lesson slides recap the prior learning before moving on to the main skill. Children can then practise further by completing the activities and can extend their learning by completing an engaging extension task.

National Curriculum Objectives Mathematics Year 2: (2M1) Compare and order lengths, mass, volume/capacity and record the results using >, < and =

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Lesson Slides

These lesson slides guide pupils through the prior learning of weight and mass, before moving onto the main skill of compare mass. There are a number of questions to check pupils' understanding throughout.

Modelling PowerPoint

This powerpoint can be used to model the questions that the children will complete on the Varied Fluency and Reasoning & Problem Solving worksheets as part of this lesson.

These are the same as the lesson slides on Classroom Secrets. You can assign this as an activity for pupils to access individually in school or remotely from home.

1 Prior Learning

This worksheet recaps prior learning of weight and mass, before moving onto the main skill of comparing the mass of objects using balance scales.

Interactive Activity

This Year 1 Introduce Weight and Mass Game is designed to check pupils' understanding of using balance scales to identify which objects are heavier and which are lighter.

2 Practical Activities

Supporting Activity

This Compare Mass To supporting activities sheet contains suggestions for additional tasks you might wish to use to support pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the lesson.

2 Varied Fluency

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency questions for pupils to practise the main skill of this lesson.

This Year 2 Compare Mass Game aims to support pupils' knowledge of measurement.

2 Application

This compare mass extension task includes a challenge activity which can be used to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in the compare mass lesson.

Mixed Practice

This worksheet includes varied fluency, reasoning and problem solving questions for pupils to practise the main skill of compare mass.

This differentiated worksheet includes reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.

Discussion Problem

This worksheet includes two discussion problems which can be used in pairs or small groups to further pupils' understanding of the concepts taught in this lesson.

This Year 2 Compare Mass Maths Challenge aims to extend pupils' understanding of measurement.

This differentiated worksheet includes varied fluency and reasoning and problem solving questions to support the teaching of this step.

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This Mass, Capacity and Temperature Consolidation Year 2 resource will help your pupils consolidate their understanding of Summer Block 4: Mass, Capacity and Temperature.

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